The trials and tribulations of Paul Jessop living in the lovely Somerset village of Barrington setting up Barrington Pottery.

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Flower Pots and a Lady Who knew Isaac Button.

Earlier this week I got a chance to look in the potting sheds at Barrington Court

Virtually all of the flower pots are hand thrown, with just a few modern ones

made by jolly machine. A couple of weeks ago the McDonalds came into my workshop to collect
the Harvest jug they had ordered and at the Time Joy ordered
six seed pans.
Hopefully just like the ones I have now completed.
"ready when you are Joy".
I know they read the blog. And today I sold one of my Ash Glaze pots to a lady
who used to take school children to visit Isaac Button at Soil Hill Pottery.
She said he would never answer his phone or reply to letters,
but was always great with the kids when they turned up.

I tell you, you meet all sorts of people and find out so much
it really does make every day different.

6 comments:

That's very cool, Paul. I, on the other hand, abandoned the pottery today in favor of the Leeside, a bar in Woods Hole, where I drank good IPA and watched the US lose by one point to the Brazilians in the Confederation Cup. I felt a very negligent potter, but Dee was away for the weekend and I was on my own.

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30 years ago I was a full time potter full of the joys of spring and loving every minute of it. I want to feel that again so at the age of 46 i'm working on it. "I have a Plan". It's time I need to find now. I've just hit 54 this year and this is the Journey so far.